The biggest public realm landscape architecture project undertaken in Aotearoa has taken the supreme award in this year’s Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards. Te Papa Ōtākaro Avon River Park was named the NZILA George Malcolm winner at last week’s ceremony at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Read MoreThe NZILA Firth Conference has wrapped up for another year with overwhelmingly positive feedback from delegates. The event ended in Christchurch last night with the ceremony naming the winners in the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019.
Read MoreThe NZILA’s 2019 conference enters its final day in Christchurch today - with the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards dinner on tonight.
Read MoreThe 2019 NZILA Firth Conference opened last night in Ōtautahi Christchurch. This year’s theme is DISRUPTION and over the next two days the conference will examine the relationship between design and disruption.
Read MoreWoodstock. First Man on the Moon. But that wasn’t all that happened in 1969. New Zealand’s first programme in landscape architecture got underway at what was then Lincoln College.
Read MoreThe Australian Institute of Landscape Architects have awarded McGregor Coxall a 2019 landscape planning award for their 10-hectare Moonee Ponds Creek proposal.
Read MoreLandscape architect OLIN’s winning design for Washington D.C.’s 11th Street Bridge Park will connect two historically disparate sides of the Anacostia River.
Read MoreWEISS/MANFREDI have responded to the challenge of redesigning the iconic La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, with a plan for a triple Mobius linking all existing park elements.
Read MoreWhen Greymouth’s new Town Square and Tainui Street Shared Space opened just before Christmas two years ago there was a carnival-like atmosphere.
Read MoreGood things come in small packages. Or in this case on small sites. Xteriorscapes vision for this compact, high quality project was absolutely inspired and driven by the site and its relationship with harbour, history and hill country. This was a unique project with a strong response to site context, as well as clear design vision, attention to detail and high quality construction.
Read MoreOn the back of global climate change protests CMG Landscape Architecture has launched the Climate Positive Design Challenge, which enables professionals around the world to take climate action.
MVRDV has come up with a plan to revive the historic centre of The Hague, reopening many of its 17th Century canals through a neighbourhood participation project, and improving, “the sustainability, economy, traffic and water management of the area.”
Read MoreWith a goal of stopping degradation, improving quality and reversing past damage to freshwater systems, the government has proposed a comprehensive suite of policy documents and legislative changes related to freshwater management.
Read MoreAn extensive refurbishment of Rangiora’s RSA has helped boost the club’s membership, attracting younger patrons along the way, says it’s building committee chairman, Ross Ditmer.
Read More‘Where do we dance?’ is a research project led by Dr Rebecca Kiddle along with Dr Wokje Abrahamse from Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.
Read MoreOne of Auckland’s most important stretches of downtown waterfront will soon be a place for people and coastal ecologies, says Isthmus Group’s Sarah Bishop and Nada Stanish.
Read MoreSnøhetta has designed an update for Honolulu’s 22-acre Blaisdell Center complex, a “radical reconfiguration” that will provide a new network of open spaces and unifying paths.
Read MoreOn familiar streets and roads many of us think, “it would be so much better here if the street was set up like this instead”. Then we redesign them in our minds, placemaking here, or traffic calming there, maybe injecting some green infrastructure throughout.
Read MoreJapanese garden design has evolved over centuries to evoke a tightly controlled but rich sense of place. To achieve this, the gardens tend to be highly detailed, carefully manicured and follow a very strict set of design principles.
Almost 10 years after the first section of Manhattan’s High Line opened to the public, the Spur has been completed, an addition that continues the park’s tradition of planting with native wildflowers and including pieces of its former railway.
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